One-Way Ticket To MarsIf you were chosen, would you go to Mars knowing that it's a one-way ticket? When I'm not snoring sleeping on the Metro on my way to work, I usually scan the pages of express, a free publication offered to Metro riders. This article (photo below) got my attention. This Mars thing is from a company called Mars One. There were 200,000 applicants interested to go to Mars.

Police in North Carolina Patrol in a CorvetteThe nonpolice version of the Corvette Z06. Speeders in Wake County, N.C., will have to go pretty fast if they want to outrun the police department’s latest interceptor — a Chevrolet Corvette Z06. The Wake County police recently seized the Corvette from a drug dealer, said David Cooke, the county manager, according to the News & Observer. The car is being used to patrol Interstate 40. The county sheriff, Donnie Harrison, however, was apparently less forthcoming with the local paper.

Donald-Trump-Makes-History-With-Zero-Major-9887263With just a little over a month until election day, Donald Trump has racked up zero major newspaper endorsements, a first for any major party nominee in American history. While newspaper endorsements don’t necessarily change voters’ minds, this year’s barrage of anti-Trump endorsements could actually move the needle come November, experts say. “It’s significant,” Jack Pitney, professor of government at California’s Claremont McKenna College, told TheWrap.Pioneer 10Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, weighing 258 kilograms, that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter.[1] Thereafter, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System. This space exploration project was conducted by the NASA Ames Research Center in California, and the space probe was manufactured by TRW. Pioneer 10 was assembled around a hexagonal bus with a 2.74 meter diameter parabolic dish high-gain antenna, and the spacecraft was spin stabilized around the axis of the antenna. Its electric power was supplied by four radioisotope thermoelectric generators that provided a combined 155 watts at launch.

Egocide and suicide | The Psychology of MeLately, I’ve been thinking about egocide. (Why does my autocorrect want to change that to “geocode”??) I’m at the end of my rope and climbing back up is not an option.How this travel guide for black motorists during Jim Crow will be brought to lifeDespite efforts to limit our history to just textbooks in classrooms and stories they told us about ourselves, we have a vast history that can not be ignored. The importance of uncovering our history and learning more about our heroes is what led author and playwright Calvin Ramsey to launch his new project. With his newest project, The Green Chronicles, Ramsey seeks to tell the story of Victor Green. The mailman in New York City for 20 years created a travel guide for black people. For 30 years, Green distributed this guide which included gas stations, barbershops, restaurants and safe places to stay.

Minecraft (alpha)I plan on having several game modes: (copied and pasted from the blog) Creative mode You’ve got infinite materials and build without any delay. Can be played both as singleplayer and as multi player.You can share the maps with other players somehow.This is Why I'll Never be an AdultI have repeatedly discovered that it is important for me not to surpass my capacity for responsibility. Over the years, this capacity has grown, but the results of exceeding it have not changed. Normally, my capacity is exceeded gradually, through the accumulation of simple, daily tasks.girlshealth.govComputers, cellphones, and other kinds of technology can be great. But sometimes they can be used to really hurt someone. Keep reading to learn more about cyberbullying:

Exclusive: The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberian woolly mammothFirst ever sample of mammoth's blood was discovered by Siberian researches. Picture: Semyon Grigoriev Scientists say they have found both blood and muscle tissue - perfectly preserved in the ice - from a Siberian mammoth. The blood had dripped out of the giant animal into a natural ice capsule and it represents a dream discovery for researchers.